Isaiah 64

¹Oh that you would tear the heavens,
that you would come down,
that the mountains might quake at your presence,
²as when fire kindles the brushwood,
[and] the fire causes the waters to boil; to
make your name known to your adversaries,
that the nations may tremble at your presence!
³When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for,
you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
⁴For from of old men have not heard,
nor perceived by the ear, neither
has the eye seen a God besides you,
who works for him who waits for him.
⁵You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness,
those who remember you in your ways.
Behold, you were angry, and we sinned.
We have been in sin for a long time; and
shall we be saved?
⁶For we have all become as one who is unclean,
and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and
we all fade as a leaf;
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
⁷There is none who calls on your name,
who stirs up himself to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

⁸But now, Yahweh, you are our Father;
we are the clay, and you our potter; and
we all are the work of your hand.
⁹Don’t be furious, Yahweh, neither
remember iniquity forever:
see, look, we beg you,
we are all your people.
¹⁰Your holy cities are become a wilderness,
Zion is become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
¹¹Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you,
is burned with fire; and
all our pleasant places are laid waste.
¹²Will you refrain yourself for these things, Yahweh?
Will you hold your peace, and afflict us very severely?